The competitive pressures in the automotive industry have never been as intense as they are right now. Automotive manufacturers are working vigorously to meet customer needs, squeeze out costs, achieve the highest possible quality, and do all of this with fewer and fewer resources.
The pain of “doing more with...
Published: Feb 21, 2014
The greatest promise of the information-driven enterprise resides in the vertical-specific questions business leaders have historically been unable or afraid to ask, whether because of a lack of coherence in their data or the prohibitively high cost of specialized tools.
Centralizing and bringing compute to all your...
Published: Sep 10, 2014
Shouldn’t there be a way to combine the elasticity, self-service, and metered usage of commodity clouds, with governance and management ease of traditional IT systems?
This article aims to explore the business case for the enterprise cloud, focusing on public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The discussion...
Published: Mar 14, 2014
The wide area network (WAN) will be critical to the success of enterprise hybrid cloud strategies and initiatives. Although WAN optimization and traditional WAN services addressed a broad range of client/server requirements, other capabilities are needed in the context of the 3rd Platform.
This IDC Insight offers...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
The first challenge for most business is in defining where CRM sits within the organisation, who has control or responsibility and which theories underpin the approach.
The second challenge is to separate out the methodology and processes before identifying the technology that can be deployed to make those systems...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Enterprises increasingly recognize that application workloads are critical to the success of their business.
They also recognize that the composition, nature, and deployment of cloud workloads represent an entirely new set of challenges. These factors directly impact the role that hybrid cloud networks will...
Published: Feb 10, 2015
Casablanca INT provides internet, data and voice services in the Czech Republic, including managed servers and server hosting, and is one of the country's top five telecommunications service providers.
The company has in the past split its business between internet service provisioning and selling IT services...
Published: Aug 26, 2013
In today’s competitive marketplace—where world-class computing power is more affordable than ever, and self-service, personalization and instant access to technology have become the norm—we are seeing a shift in expectations regarding cloud computing.
Yesterday, the cloud was about running IT more...
Published: Nov 12, 2013
In “Hybrid IT: The Best of All Worlds”, you’ll see why colocation is an essential first step in moving your core infrastructure toward a hybrid model. And the benefits go beyond greater cost containment.
Colocation allows you to be more responsive to changing business needs and ultimately help drive...
Published: Sep 05, 2014
Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public, private or hybrid cloud. However, many cloud vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility: they’re either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both.
But for those...
Published: Apr 10, 2014
Enterprise customers require cloud computing solutions that allow them to quickly scale and flex deployments of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) service models.
As part of HP’s Converged Cloud, HP CloudSystem enables enterprises and service providers...
Published: Jul 26, 2013
When it comes to landing page optimization, we often focus our attention on page layout, compelling call-to-actions, and motivating copy. All of these elements are extremely important, but they are meaningless without accurate data. If users enter bad data on landing pages or forms then no amount of split A/B testing can...
Published: Oct 03, 2013
In this interview, IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) executives Man Bui, Ben Morehead and Warren Sirota discuss today’s disaster recovery challenges and how cloud computing can help overcome them. They also share their insights on cloud’s abilities to help recover IT operations more quickly,...
Published: Oct 14, 2014
Choosing a cloud application backup provider is like any technology decision: there is no one-size-fits-all solution. You must determine which provider offers the best cost/benefit for your organization’s unique needs. This guide will highlight the most important features and policies associated with cloud-to-cloud...
Published: Jul 15, 2013